Ukraine - UK Column News - 9th November 2022

- NATO, the Bloc That Would Be A Country: Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg meets Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and becomes "the first international leader" (sic) to pay a call on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
- British kit for Ukraine trumpeted by Ministry of Defence: not enough to turn the tide of the war
- Ben Wallace meets Estonian Minister of Defence Hanno Pevkur as the West plans a "Russian Government-in-Exile", possibly to be based in neighbouring Latvia
- A recent Eastern Approaches Podcast covers Britain's military presence in Estonia -Col. Richard Kemp pleads for Britain to send fighter jets to Ukraine—"astonishing ignorance"
- Monday recap: Ukrainian soldier bids emotional farewell under incessant Russian GRAD rocket launcher fire (commentary by Defense Politics Asia; subtitling by WarTranslated.com)
- Viewer e-mail: Was white phosphorus used by the Russians, or was it another type of GRAD warhead using thermite with magnesium caps (9N510)?
- Either way, phosphorus is not banned internationally for firing on troops in the field
- OpIndia report
- Britain's Trident nuclear submarines lurching towards unseaworthiness: fire on board HMS Victorious forces abandonment of mission

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